অপারেশন সার্চলাইটের প্রথম ২ দিনে প্রায় ১ লক্ষ মানুষকে হত্যা করা হয়।
The marauding forces of Yahya Khan let loose on Bangladesh had left the Dhaka University in a state devastation. The Rajshai University also shared the same fate at the hands of the west Pakistani forces. [5] After two days of deaths and destruction as many as 1,00,000 people were feared killed. [6]
References:
[1] Naayan Choudhury, ‘Massacre of Intellectuals’, Ananda Bazar Patrika, Calcutta, April 10,1971,Bangladesh War of Independence Ducuments, Vol. XIV, Government of People’s Republic of Bangladesh, June 1984, p. 663.
[2] Dhaka, Khulna Bombed, A lakh feared killed. Freedom fighters on mass action’, Ananda Bazar Patrika, Calcutta, March 28, 1971, Bangladesh War of Independence Documents, Vol.XIV, op.cit., p. 653.